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Courtney Sells Nirvana Rights Share
Post Date: 2006-03-31 16:36:31 by A K A Stone
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When Nirvana singer and lead songwriter Kurt Cobain died in 1994, his widow, rocker Courtney Love, became the primary beneficiary of his estate, which includes more than ninety-eight percent of the band's publishing rights. Band members Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl were left with part of the remainder. Now Love tells Rolling Stone that she has finally sold twenty-five percent of her share of Nirvana's sought-after publishing catalog -- to Larry Mestel of Primary Wave Music Publishing, former COO/GM of Virgin Records. "I took on a strategic partner, Larry Mestel, to help me co-manage the estate because it was overwhelming," Love explains. "The affairs of Nirvana are so ...
Race Riots Could Lead to Camps For Americans and Illegals Mexican extremists led like lambs to the slaughter will be the first victims
Post Date: 2006-03-31 09:48:17 by A K A Stone
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The catalyst for the agenda to intern millions of Americans deemed subversive in a time of manufactured chaos could be race riots kick-started by radicalized Mexican Klan groups and their establishment controllers. Yesterday we reported on the immigration protests that are a front for the violent separatist Atzlan movement. After watching Spanish TV news stations we were able to ascertain that the marches were not wholly an organic response to the introduction of the immigration bill but were being artificially promoted and organized by the Spanish-language media. The Associated Press reported today that, "Many of the 500,000 people who crammed downtown Los Angeles on Saturday to ...
No Apology From McKinney for Hill Scuffle
Post Date: 2006-03-31 09:18:19 by A K A Stone
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Rep. Cynthia McKinney, the Georgia congresswoman who had a physical altercation with a police officer, is speaking out about the episode after saying she regretted the incident. But she has refused to apologize in a statement and a brief on-camera interview. The six-term congresswoman apparently struck a Capitol Police officer when he tried to stop her from entering a House office building without going through a metal detector. Members of Congress wear identifying lapel pins and routinely are waved into buildings without undergoing security checks. The officer apparently did not recognize McKinney, she said in a statement. Asked on-camera Thursday by WSB-TV of Atlanta ...
Virginia Training Manual Lists Property Rights Activists As Terrorists
Post Date: 2006-03-28 22:59:18 by Coral Snake
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Virginia Training Manual Lists Property Rights Activists As Terrorists Says video cameras, binoculars, sketch pads are terrorist tools Paul Joseph Watson/Prison http://Planet.com | March 28 2006 A Virginia training manual used to help state employees recognize terrorists lists anti-government and property rights activists as terrorists and includes binoculars, video cameras, pads and notebooks in a compendium of terrorist tools. The manual, discovered by the Virginia News Source, is keen to emphasize that terrorists are not only Middle Eastern in scope and the main focus is afforded to domestic terrorism. Included with Hamas, Al-Qaeda and Islamic Jihad, the following groups are ...
Michael Schiavo: Divorce Wasn't an Option
Post Date: 2006-03-27 09:33:35 by A K A Stone
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Despite pleas from the Vatican, U.S. lawmakers and the president, Michael Schiavo says he could not have divorced his brain-damaged wife and given up the fight to let her die. "I was doing something that Terri wanted. And I couldn't give it up on her," Schiavo said in an interview recorded for the Sunday edition of NBC's "Dateline." Schiavo's book about the case, "Terri: The Truth," is scheduled for release Monday, the day before a competing book by Terri Schiavo's parents, Bob and Mary Schindler, is released. Friday will be the first anniversary of Terri Schiavo's death, 13 days after her feeding tube was removed. Michael Schiavo fought the Schindlers in ...
Buck Owens, flamboyant country music star, dies at 76
Post Date: 2006-03-25 21:56:50 by continental op
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LOS ANGELES - Singer Buck Owens, the flashy rhinestone cowboy who shaped the sound of country music with hits like "Act Naturally" and brought the genre to TV on the long-running "Hee Haw," died Saturday. He was 76. Owens died at his home in Bakersfield, said family spokesman Jim Shaw. The cause of death was not immediately known. Owens had undergone throat cancer surgery in 1993 and was hospitalized with pneumonia in 1997. His career was one of the most phenomenal in country music, with a string of more than 20 No. 1 records, most released from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s. They were recorded with a honky-tonk twang that came to be known throughout California as the ...
Remember The October Surprise? Who Is Ernest Backes And Why Does George H. Bush Want Him Out Of The Picture?
Post Date: 2006-03-24 22:30:59 by Coral Snake
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Remember The October Surprise? Who Is Ernest Backes And Why Does George H. Bush Want Him Out Of The Picture? By Greg Szymanski 3-24-6 One man that the ruthless and diabolical George H. W. Bush wants dead or out of the picture probably more than anybody else goes by the surprising and unknown name of Ernest Backes. And it may come as even a bigger surprise that Backes isn't even a "fat cat" political foe or an undercover FBI agent with information about Bush's Iran Contra drug smuggling days. Although not a big shot, the information he learned as a backroom banking officer for the Clearstream Banking Network is big news and pins Bush right to wall for lying about what has come ...
Blaming the Media for Bad War News
Post Date: 2006-03-24 15:58:54 by PnbC
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Blaming the Media for Bad War News by Norman Solomon Top officials in the Bush administration have often complained that news coverage of Iraq focuses on negative events too much and fails to devote enough attention to positive developments. Yet the White House has rarely picked direct fights with U.S. media outlets during this war. For the most part, President Bush leaves it to others to scapegoat the media. Karl Rove's spin strategy is heavily reliant on surrogates. They're likely to escalate blame-the-media efforts as this year goes on. A revealing moment – dramatizing the pro-war division of labor – came on Wednesday, during Bush's nationally televised appearance in ...
Fed Chief Sees Need to Include Global Factors in Setting Rates
Post Date: 2006-03-20 22:45:54 by A K A Stone
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Ben S. Bernanke, the newly installed Federal Reserve chairman, suggested this evening that the central bank would need to pay more attention to global financial conditions in setting interest rates, moving beyond its usual focus on domestic economic forces. In his prepared remarks to the Economic Club of New York, Mr. Bernanke told the group gathered at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in midtown Manhattan that to understand the reasons behind movements in American bond yields, "an explanation less centered on the United States might be required." In only his third speech since being sworn in as Fed chairman last month, Mr. Bernanke was also skeptical about the argument that the economy ...
Oh, you mean those guns
Post Date: 2006-03-19 21:02:21 by A K A Stone
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After Katrina, New Orleans denied it confiscated guns from people. Oops: In a stunning reversal, the City of New Orleans revealed today to attorneys representing the Second Amendment Foundation and National Rifle Association that they do have a stockpile of firearms seized from private citizens in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. The disclosure came as attorneys for both sides were preparing for a hearing in federal court on a motion filed earlier by SAF and NRA to hold the city in contempt. Plaintiffs’ attorneys traveled to a location within the New Orleans city limits where they viewed more than 1,000 firearms that were being stored. “This is a very significant event,” ...
Prescription for an obsession? Impulsive sex, compulsive gambling linked to Parkinson’s drugs
Post Date: 2006-03-19 16:56:29 by A K A Stone
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When Wayne Kanuch received a diagnosis of Parkinson's disease in 1993, the last thing he imagined was that the drug prescribed to treat his illness would turn him into a compulsive gambler and put his libido into overdrive. Kanuch's marriage ended in divorce, partly as a result of the sexual pressures he placed on his wife, and he began losing fortunes at the racetrack. He was fired from his job at Chevron for trolling for dates on the Internet while at work, and he quickly went bankrupt. "I contemplated suicide a couple of times," he said in an interview last week. "Everyone was blaming me, and I was looking at the mirror and blaming myself and asking why I could not ...
Patent trolling' firms sue their way to profits
Post Date: 2006-03-19 15:34:25 by A K A Stone
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AUSTIN, Texas - While most technology companies make money by developing software, building hardware or providing services, Forgent Networks Inc. has taken a different route: It produces threats and lawsuits that try to cash in on ideas. Forgent and other companies with similar strategies — often called “patent trolling” by critics — amass intellectual property portfolios and file suits against other businesses, accusing them of infringement. With a skeleton crew of 30 employees and the help of a law firm, Forgent has built a business out of suing — or threatening to sue — companies, even though it offers no related products and does no development of the ...
Bush's situational ethics
Post Date: 2006-03-17 22:55:04 by Coral Snake
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Bush's situational ethics By ANN McFEATTERS Mar 17, 2006, 06:50 President Bush's new, 19,322-word national security report is a stunning document that parents should not permit their children to read. It does not square with what schoolchildren learn about the principles for which this country has stood. Here are a few examples: "Under long-standing principles of self defense, we do not rule out the use of force before attacks occur _ even if uncertainty remains as to the time and place of the enemy's attack." This is a restatement of Bush's remarkable and central doctrine of preemption _ this country now chooses to go to war against countries suspected of plotting to do us ...
Blogger's Post of Abortion Instructions Troubles Both Sides of Volatile Debate
Post Date: 2006-03-17 09:28:57 by A K A Stone
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A feminist blogger has posted explicit directions online for a surgical abortion, in reaction to the new South Dakota law all but banning the procedure. Her action troubles activists on both sides of the issue: Is it a harbinger of a return to the era of secret, illegal abortions? At her "Molly Saves the Day" weblog, the 21-year-old Florida resident uses the pseudonym Molly Blythe. Given the volitility of the abortion debate, she requested that her real name and city of residence not be used in this story. In an interview, the blogger said South Dakota's recent ban on abortion -- even in cases of rape and incest -- prompted her post, "For the Women of South Dakota: An ...
Shock Therapy For Kids: Torture or Cure?
Post Date: 2006-03-15 17:00:19 by A K A Stone
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(CBS) MELVILLE “This has saved all our children's lives”, said a shaken Dorothy Mirro in Melville today. She was among twenty emotional parents supporting controversial shock-therapy treatment. “The school is a god-send. My wife and I suffer. You don't know what it's like to have a violent son who could kill you--but who you dearly love.” The school that Jenkin Washington speaks of, The Rotenberg Center, is in Massachusetts but approved by New York State as a facility for extremely troubled youths. It uses modern-day electric shock therapy by way of back packs, belts--sometimes strapped to arms and legs. The shocks can last two to three seconds and are usually ...
Bush And Terrorism
Post Date: 2006-03-14 23:59:18 by Coral Snake
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Bush And Terrorism By Gerald Rellick 3-13-6 With George Bush's overall approval rating down to 34% it's become apparent that the country has wised up to the frightful reality that we have a totally incompetent president. But even when Bush was at the height of his approval ratings, polls showed that a majority of Americans opposed most of his policies---from failure to protect the environment, tax cuts that overwhelmingly rewarded the wealthy, the social security privatization plan, massive job losses, etc. But in spite of such opposition Bush won reelection, although barely. He did so for one simple reason -- namely, that America has not suffered a terrorist attack since 9/11/01. A small ...
Judge to Order Google to Give Up Some Data
Post Date: 2006-03-14 19:16:46 by A K A Stone
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A federal judge said Tuesday he intends to require Google Inc. to turn over some information to the Department of Justice in its quest to revive a law making it harder for children to see online pornography. U.S. District Judge James Ware did not immediately say whether the data will include words that users entered into the Internet's leading search engine. The legal showdown over how much of the Web's vast databases should be shared with the government has pitted the Bush administration against the Mountain View-based company, which resisted a subpoena to turn over any information because of user privacy and trade secret concerns. The Justice Department downplayed Google's concerns, ...
Internet Backlash Stalls Jersey Civility Bill
Post Date: 2006-03-14 19:15:24 by A K A Stone
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A New Jersey lawmaker's attempt to legislate civility on an Internet discussion board runs into a wall of opposition from bloggers and others who saw it as an attempt to stifle free speech. A New Jersey Assemblyman's Internet civility bill is on ice since opponents blasted it as an assault on free speech. Assemblyman Peter Biondi and his staff said they were trying to curb malicious exchanges on some local discussion boards when they introduced a bill requiring people to provide their real names and addresses before posting on public Web sites. The bill also stated that hosts could be sued for failing to disclose the identities of people disseminating false or defamatory information. ...
A furious George hits gutless Dems
Post Date: 2006-03-13 08:41:50 by A K A Stone
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George Clooney has a message for Democratic office-holders who voted for the war in Iraq, only to claim later that they'd been misled by President Bush: "F— you!" The movie star's argument — directed at the likes of presidential wannabes Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, John Kerry and John Edwards — is actually more nuanced than that. But not by much. "The fear of being criticized can be paralyzing," Clooney writes today on http://Huffingtonpost.com — pumping up the volume after banging the drum of Hollywood liberalism in his Oscar acceptance speech. "Just look at the way so many Democrats caved in the runup to the war. In 2003, a lot of us were ...
Provisions make reporting on government surveillance illegal
Post Date: 2006-03-11 21:29:23 by Coral Snake
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Provisions make reporting on government surveillance illegal AP | March 11 2006 Reporters who write about government surveillance could be prosecuted under proposed legislation that would solidify the administration's eavesdropping authority, according to some legal analysts who are concerned about dramatic changes in U.S. law. But an aide to the bill's chief author, Sen. Mike DeWine, R-Ohio, said that is not the intention of the legislation. "It in no way applies to reporters 52; in any way, shape or form," said Mike Dawson, a senior policy adviser to DeWine, responding to an inquiry Friday afternoon. "If a technical fix is necessary, it will be made." The ...
Fox Security Threatens Disagreeing O'Reilly Callers Harassment and intimidation in brownshirt Neo-Conned America
Post Date: 2006-03-11 20:41:23 by Coral Snake
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Fox Security Threatens Disagreeing O'Reilly Callers Harassment and intimidation in brownshirt Neo-Conned America Paul Joseph Watson/Prison http://Planet.com | March 11 2006 Bill O'Reilly's on-air threat to callers who disagreed with him that they would receive a visit from Fox security and that their information would be turned over to local law enforcement at first seemed like another sick gimmick, but the stunt became a whole lot more serious when it was revealed that at least two terrified victims had received threatening calls. Countdown's Keith Olbermann, subject of a mud-slinging match with O'Reilly, highlighted two cases where callers who irked O'Reilly later received actual phone ...
Nephew takes stand in support of Bush Letter to the editor offers sharp defense of the Dubai ports deal
Post Date: 2006-03-10 13:54:01 by A K A Stone
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WASHINGTON - He refrained from working on his uncle's presidential campaigns, and he confesses to being a bit fed up with the squabbling on Capitol Hill. But if his e-mail outbox is any indication, Pierce G. Bush is one of the Bush dynasty's more politically vocal members these days. When the political firestorm over Dubai Ports World broke out last month, President Bush's nephew sent the Houston Chronicle an electronic letter to the editor, defending his uncle's drive to allow the United Arab Emirates company to buy a firm that helps run six U.S. ports. To the University of Texas at Austin student, opposition to the deal — it had been approved by the administration before being ...
Arab ally senses Bush no longer has control in Washington
Post Date: 2006-03-09 23:54:15 by Coral Snake
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Arab ally senses Bush no longer has control in Washington Edward Alden and Holly Yeager / Financial Times | March 10 2006 The decision by the United Arab Emirates on Thursday to order state-controlled Dubai Ports World to end its control over US port facilities marks the lowest point yet in the relationship between President George W. Bush and the Republican-controlled Congress. Mr Bush had warned repeatedly that blocking the deal would send a dangerously discriminatory message to the world. He threatened repeatedly to veto any congressional legislation. But with his public approval ratings at record lows and his Republican party abandoning him, one of the US57;s closest allies in the ...
Indiana firm to make composite rail ties
Post Date: 2006-03-09 20:15:31 by A K A Stone
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FORT WAYNE, Ind., March 9 (UPI) -- Indiana-based Steel Dynamics Inc. is forming a joint venture to make composite railroad ties. The venture, to be called Dynamic Composites, LLC, will equip and start a factory at a site to be determined that will have the capacity initially to make 250,000 ties per year. The ties will be made under an exclusive license from Primix Corp. of Atwood, Ind. "North American demand for railroad ties is estimated to range from 15 to 19 million ties per year, a $700- to $800-million market," Steel Dynamics said Thursday in a statement. "Currently, wood ties comprise an estimated 95 percent of the market, the remainder being concrete, steel, and ...
Suspicious Computer Problems in Airports Nationwide
Post Date: 2006-03-09 07:43:42 by A K A Stone
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There's an old Elvis Presley song that goes something like...I just can't go on, suspicious minds...or something like that. I thought of that song because I just heard that most or all of the airports in the country are experiencing shut downs or major delays. Supposedly it's because the mainframe computers that handle flight scheduling have gone down. That may well be. However since it is a fact that our own government is behind every major "terrorist" attack against us, it is always advisable to view any "official" story with multiple grains of salt. It is possible that the authorities are telling the truth and the computers actually did crash. It is also very ...
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